Bill Limiting Searches Of Newsrooms Passed By Connecticut House; Bill Called a Compromise
Date: 01 March 1979
By DIANE HENRY Special to The New York Times
Diane Special
Conn HR approves measure that would limit ability of police and prosecutors to search newsrooms; under bill, police and prosecutors would no longer be able to obtain warrants to conduct unannounced searches of newsrooms for evidence allegedly relating to crimes; instead, law-enforcement authorities would have to follow more difficult route of going to ct to obtain subpoena for documents or photographs held by individual journalists, newspapers, magazines and TV and radio stations; Repr Richard D Tulisano, 1 of bill's sponsors, comments (S)